Posted on 12/28/2007 4:45:25 AM PST by Tai_Chung
It’s the ol’ “there’s a mouse in my beer scam methinks”
Let’s see a show of hands if you have unknowingly purchased a used item from Wal-Mart or Sam’s.
My hand is up. It was a digital camera from Sam’s, for my wife. When she fired it up it was loaded with photos from a woman’s birthday party. Interior and exterior shots of the home and the yard.
Sam’s told me that to re-sell something violated their policy. One of the employees told me they re-sell returned items all of the time.
The child could have learned on a friend's MP3. I know from personal experience that Wally-World repackages and resells returned crap, as a normal procedure. I have seen it over and over. However, I wonder what are the odds that it's daddy's MP3 that he forgot to take out?
I’ve worked in retail. This is entirely possible.
Agreed. There is nothing to erase those images from that child’s mind. Your post is a small island of sanity in a sea of sarcasm.
Don’t these files carry information with them, ie: WHEN the images were loaded onto the player?
It would be easy to compare that timeframe with the purchase date... If the files were loaded AFTER purchase, the family can go pound sand (and should be brought up on fraud charges)... If BEFORE purchase, they may have a case... but only for a new player, not a million in “damages”.
Sorry Neidermeyer, but I used to work for walmart on several occasions, and can tell you that in the several stores I worked at - there was no shrink wrap machine.
It was more than likely a Return that wasnt tagged properly (for whatever reason)and put in the the wrong place. We always had areas behind the service counter (where people make returns) where lost items - stuff found in one department and left in another - were also brought & stored until someone from the appropriate department came to retrieve them.
From that point, someone in Electronics probably didnt realize it was a RETURN (which is a seperate department in itself located in the back of the store) - and may have thought it was merely an open package, which they could've reclosed and restocked.
Sounds like an unfortunate accident to me, and I am not a defender of Walmart, as there are a lot of things that I dislike about Walmart. (In case anyone thinks that I am carrying their banner.)
Hey! The gift that keeps on giving!
I LOL’d.
Whether it's a scam to hit the lawsuit lotto or it was a screw up by the retailer, as a father of a daughter my prayers have gone out to that little girl. The world is already messed up enough for a child to grow into without having to carry garbage like this through her childhood.
Is that anything like re-fur-bush?
Or American Servicemember. This is exactly the stuff that a whole lot of my fellow sailors have loaded up on their players when we go to sea.
Very similar.... lol
Correct and that’s why this smells like a set up and an inside job.
I think the father put the videos on there.....$$$$$$
But, maybe it was put on my somebody previous.
I agree.
The kid watched porn for 10 minutes before starting to ball and be upset?
Come on. I doubt the kid even knew what was going on.
This whole story just smells to high heaven.
And dad was not there helping her with the mp3 player? He just let her go off by herself and watch porn?
Yep. We bought a computer from Best Buy. We brought it home and found a bunch of personal files from someone else.
I bet this kind of thing happens a lot.
Ditto.
Bingo!! I think this happened on the vendors end.
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